The Umrah is performed by Muslims from all over the world who converge on the holy city of Mecca to observe the ritual, which can be undertaken at any time of the year but mostly observed during Ramadan.
The pilgrims perform a series of worship activities symbolising the lives of Prophet Ibrahim (AS) and his second wife, Hajara.Leadership gathered that both families arrived in Saudi Arabia this week for Umrah and while Aisha Buhari and her five children were allotted two-bedroom accommodation, the former vice president was allotted an eight-room apartment.
Leadership also learnt that while not a single protocol officer and vehicles were posted by the embassy to attend to the president’s family, a protocol officer and vehicles from the embassy were attached to the former vice president and his family.
An embassy source revealed that Buhari’s wife had travelled to Saudi Arabia via Emirate Airline instead of the presidential jet, as was the practice in the previous administrations, and had decided to seek alternative accommodation by herself at her own expense, to accommodate her and her children.
However, it was gathered that the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia provided an official vehicle to convey the Nigerian president’s family around as it is done for the families of all visiting heads of state.
The source further revealed that the consular-general, Ahmed Umar, still sees himself as being more beholden to the former vice president than anyone else because Sambo it was that was instrumental to his elevation and posting to Saudi Arabia. He still sees himself basically as Sambo’s protege, a staff member of the embassy told Leadership.
The source added that even the two-bedroom apartment allotted to the president’s family was a result of the efforts of the ambassador, Alhaji Abubakar Bunu, and not the consular-general.
While the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was in power, Buhari and his family were denied any privileges by the Nigerian embassy in Saudi Arabia, even those due to a former head of state because he was in the opposition.
Sambo and his family had last year embarked on a widely publicized Umrah.
-Leadership
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Hebrews 13:15
Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.
Topics
Faith
Keywords
Faith(ful) , Praise , Offering , Appreciates , Thanksgiving
Scripture Reference
Psalms , Hebrews
Thanking God At All Times
Jul 08, 2015
Lifting up your hands and thanking God is spontaneous and easy when you have just received a wonderful blessing: “God, I can’t thank You enough for this miracle!”
“Thank You Father, for answering my prayer!”
“Father, thank You for the windfall!”
Perhaps you came close to being in a fatal accident, but God plucked you out of danger just in time. Or your grandmother, an unbeliever for many years, finally received Jesus as her Savior and got healed of a long-term disease.
But there are times when you don’t feel like lifting up your hands to thank and praise God, yet you do it. Perhaps you feel very discouraged lately. Perhaps everything is going wrong for you and you feel like your life is in a mess. You can’t hold back the tears. Yet, you make a conscious decision to lift your hands and thank God for being in the situation with you. You open your mouth and begin to praise Him even though you really don’t feel like doing it.
In the midst of the trial that you are going through, you praise Him that He is your righteousness in spite of all the mistakes you have made. You thank Him that He is your Prince of Peace, and that His peace will arise in you and still the storms in your life.
My friend, God sees and appreciates such times when, despite feeling so discouraged, you offer a freewill thanksgiving offering to Him. In fact, your thanksgiving during such times is more highly prized by Him than your thanksgiving during those times when you are feeling joyful because you have just been blessed.
And when you choose to thank Him for His unfailing love, and His faithfulness to deliver, protect and provide for you even when you don’t see the blessings yet, before long, you will find yourself experiencing and enjoying the blessings! So lift your hands and praise the Lord, for He is good, and His mercy endures forever! (Psalm 106:1)
Thought For The Day
God sees and appreciates those times when, despite feeling so discouraged, you offer a freewill thanksgiving offering to Him
JESUSlovesus
COULD THAT BE TRUE COS I DONT BLV SAUDI WLD DO A THING LIKE THAT..... CHECK UR SOURCE WELL
MEENAH_WAKIL ON INSTAGRAM AND SNAP CHAT
Owk good 4 dem
Lib freak
YEAH YEAH LINDA!THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE!NAMADI SAMBO AND HIS ENTOURAGE SPEND LAVISHLY IN SAUDI ARABIA.EXPENSIVE GOLDS,ABAYAS,SHOES,PERFUMES ETC.SO FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS THEY HAVE CONTRIBUTED IN REVENUE GENERATION FOR SAUDIA.BUT THE 1ST FAMILY ARE LOW KEY,EVEN ORDINARY CITIZENS FROM HERE SPEND A LOT MORE OVER THERE.
Hmmm,so wat should we do. Nxt pls
*iyawo Obama
lik criously really
lol
Their business.
I am so angry that I read through this rubbish news by leadership from top to bottom. It makes no sense
Whatever.
Well Madam Linda we know d obvious,ex vp Namadi is squandering his looted well ova there,even d Arabs are in shock!
Na money dey talk naaaa!
Ewooo! Lol dibenu but ntoooo unu
Abeg they should settle their scores
U ASKIN ME???TOMJERRYSWIT
why should they do that.Isn't she the incumbent first lady or are they trying to make up things
......................TUNECHI*********
How does this stop Boko boys?
Nigerians, can always make a mountain out of a mole hill. Biko dis is a non issue. Linda take note!
Abeg they should save us the stress
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. All dis rfake, and unnecessary report dat amounts to nothing other than hatred for each other.
Namadi and Jonah balling with our money since 1823!
Kk
Which money does Aisha want them to spend. The man spent his personal fund for his friend or maybe sambo even sent him money. These Buhari family are becoming a nuisance. Wailing wailers!
Namadi na thief,ole!!!
Well I guess it's time for that stupid consular- umar to say bye bye to his job,,i hope the president fires his entire life!
Hahahahahahhaha sorry I cldnt hold d laughter in, na dem sabi
Linda this is bollocks and you know it.All these infelicious paparazzi wont stop the wind of change from blowing
They have started travelling sef
Ebariba samboribobo the number one ghost worker... he did nothing but secure favors for himself. Shameless consular general your days in Saudi are numbered
Hmmmmmmmmm yawaa!
Trash! ......The so called leadership newspaper (which we all know is a mouthpiece of apc) has grudges with the consular general of Saudi Arabia, hence they want to bring him down by all means by writing this obviously fabricated stories! They are targeting his job because they know he was appointed by PDP!...... And I trust that vindictive and unforgiving fanatic called Bhuhari will believe this rubbish and sack everyone appointed by PDP in that embassy!!!
Lol
Na dem sabbi
I hope Satan will.not stone them as they are also planing to stone Satan
Confused lots
@Galore
controversial newspaper making irrelevant headlines.
You sure say one aboki never start to dey press @Zahra breast.?
Her breast don dey shoot out.. Or Na d "kosteh" when she wear
@Galore
Your head is there Bonita. You are proof that we still have sane people on this blog.
Lesser hajj ko, higher hajj ni. You guys keep going to hajj and Jerusalem every year and yet your wickedness and dishonesty keep increasing. Who cares whether Aisha and the children were given toilet to stay in Saudi. The rate at which these modems filter away our hard earned foreign reserves in the name of hajj is really troubling. Do you know how many times the Atikus, Dangote, Tambuwalis of this country go to Saudi in a year thereby boosting the foreign exchange earning of Saudi while depleting ours. Shame on you all.
@goaldyn what is the nonsense you are saying...seriously, if the newspaper lied, and the saudi officials did not snub Buhari's people, wont Buhari's people tell him the truth of what happened?....mtcheeww!!
Okkkk
APC propaganda! If APC continues to attack the previous government, it will get to a point APC will lose popularity. At the slightest provocation, they will blame the previous government. They will always have someone to blame for their woes. It's not right.
Fabricated story....don't blv dis sh*t!
Seriously,wat kind of a stupid write up is dis."Aisha buhari took emirates airline as against presidential jet as was d practice, and decided to seek alternative accomodatn for her self and her children at her expense. THEN LATER "even the two bedroom apartment provided for her was a result of d ambassador not the consular. Ha! Bollocks
I see leadership newspaper as tabloid, they are as cheap as their fabricated stories*not interested * I can only see beautiful family. Hoping to visit umarah someday $ Hajj that's for sure Insha Allah.All the best to the wonderful winning family as they perform their Umarah, may the peace of Allah be with them.
Abeg they should park well. What were they expecting?
@ objective: thanks for your analysis. The article I guess wants to spur Buhari to swing into action in changing all the ambassadors and by extension other political appointments. Buhari is still working with GEJ'S service chiefs of which I'm sure the guys are already iching to go. So yes, PMB should appoint his loyalist make we hear word.
Na wa
Scumbags! Aboki using our oil money to go and lend support to terrorism. That's exactly what they do there. Stinking pests!
When them go sack am, him eyes go clear well well.
We are too concerned about religion in this country. Upon all our prayers the country is heading for doom . What a shame.
We are too concerned about religion in this country. Upon all our prayers the country is heading for doom . What a shame.
NOTED! ALL LOUD AND CLEAR.
Lies....
Somebody is after somebody's job.
And when he's fired now,the wailing wailers will start wailing,what nonsense. Haven't we been seeing how the US 1st family are treated???::::::::
Same thing I thought . Rubbish write up
Anon 11:09 am, Shut up garbage may u remain foolish in your life, does aisha Buhari ask your father to give her help of accommodation? PDP criminals go hug transformer if u can't bear it.
Who cares?! Really?!
Stupid people,
If she had taken presidential jet it would have been wahala, now she travels like any other Nigerian, Na wahala . We encourage spending and then cry about it. That man should be recalled back to Nigeria immediately
I HOPE THIS WILL MAKE BUHARI HURRY UP WITH HIS APPOINTMENTS AND PUT HIS PEOPLE IN THE KEY PLACES. SORRY AISHA
I see monkey hand inside ogbono soup here o, d real aim of dis write up is to draw buhari's attention to d consular for him to be replaced, dere is no place in d world a right thinking person will be rude to his or her oga's family, just tell us u hav a candidate for dat position. Success no b for free
See this idiot @irabo. Crying more than the bereaved. Does Aisha Buhari know u? Nonentity! U can't even speak English to save your poverty striken life.
Propaganda against the opposition..
I see monkey hand inside ogbono soup here o, d real aim of dis write up is to draw buhari's attention to d consular for him to be replaced, dere is no place in d world a right thinking person will be rude to his or her oga's family, just tell us u hav a candidate for dat position. Success no b for free
For Christ sake people should get real, they are trying to live on key, so what is bad about that. What do Nigerians want?
Hahahahahahah I can't stop laughing @number one ghost worker haaaa. Omo libers get mouth o., choi..
Seriously, do we expect 8 rooms to be given to a family of five and 2 rooms to 15 people? Aren't there more important things to worry about?
The Consul General needs to go.
Revenue generation for Saudi. Are you daft? How much does sambo want to spend that will contribute anything to the country
Why?
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